Team Development: Conflict Around Ideas is Critical to Team Cohesion
One of the most terrifying words in the team development dictionary is “conflict.” Believe me when I say that conflict can be a good thing.
November 2018
October 2018
Best Boss Ever: How to Discover and Use the Traits of Great Bosses
How do you want to be remembered as a team leader? That seems like an odd question, yet the truth is that we carry memories of the people we work with throughout our lives. What do we remember them for? Do we remember them for their ability to turn in reports on time? Or for something more? How many of them could have been the best boss ever?
Team Development – Building Trust and Respect With Team Members
For a team leader, feedback is an essential team development skill and key to understanding what’s really going on with the team. It’s important to build trust and vulnerability between all members of the team, including yourself.
Team Feedback: Giving It, Getting It, and Leveraging It
One of the most powerful tools – for good or evil – in the team leader’s arsenal is feedback. It can be one of the most precise ways to measure the overall health of your team, identify problem areas, and find out if remedies are actually working. Used incorrectly, feedback can plant seeds of resentment among team members that may ultimately set everyone back.
Team Development: The Secret to Motivating Your Team
One of the toughest team development tasks a team leader faces is motivating their team. Whether it’s hitting a stretch goal, meeting a tough benchmark or solving a difficult problem, a team that isn’t motivated to achieve or overcome obstacles can slow down everything.
September 2018
Team Development: Evaluating Capabilities and Readiness
There are eight team development factors that team leaders need to consider when evaluating the capabilities and readiness of a team. I call this the CR Factor.
Team Development – Four Questions to Assess A Team’s Capability
Are you a new team leader or a leader who was recently assigned a team? Do you have a good team already and know that a challenging new project is coming up? Now is a perfect time to assess your team's development, their capabilities, and their readiness level.
Team Development: Who’s on Your Team?
An important factor in successful team development is for team leaders to know who their “followers” are – the team members they’re leading. Understanding that each person falls into a general personality type can go a long way toward resolving interpersonal problems and motivating the entire team.
August 2018
Team Building: It’s All About the Handoff
Football season is in starting up, and what better example of team building than watching two teams of 11 men each demonstrate not just physical prowess but their ability to communicate and react to a changing situation on the field?
Team Development – Growing With Your Team
Teams, like house plants, also grow and change. As a leader, being aware that change is occurring and taking note as team members grow in their roles and become more advanced in their skills is critical to your team's development.